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Disney's moment of reckoning: As maverick heiress Abigail admits Harvey Weinstein's abuse against women was an 'open secret' and 16-year-old accuser sues, what will the hyper-woke company have to say?
daily mail ^ | 8/11/2022 | smith

Posted on 08/12/2022 1:05:53 PM PDT by RummyChick

In the murk of the #MeToo movement, Disney, the largest entertainment producer in the world, seemed to come out relatively unscathed.

In the years since, the company has fallen over itself to be more inclusive of diversity and women, taking its woke crusade so far that viewers are hard-pressed to find a new film or franchise that doesn't have a face-smacking social justice message.

But its squeaky-clean image was soiled this week with the admission by maverick heiress Abigail Disney that not only did the company know about Harvey Weinstein's prolific sexual abuse, it did nothing about it and may have even helped him pay off women who came forward.

'It was an open secret. I mean, it wasn't even a secret. Everyone knew what Harvey was about, and that was just fine as long as everybody saw it as, "well, this is just how business is done." 'Nobody had the moral clarity to step up and say, 'well, not here. we don't do it that way here,' Abigail, Walt Disney's black sheep great-niece, said.

Her comments to Rolling Stone were published on Wednesday alongside others by Kaja Sokola, a former model who says Weinstein assaulted her in 2002 when she was 16. She is suing Weinstein and Disney, alleging that the company failed to stop him from harming her. Disney has, so far, been silent on her claims.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 08/12/2022 1:05:53 PM PDT by RummyChick
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caan may have been a terror, too

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11078691/James-Caans-actress-ex-says-threatened-murder-probe-suspicious-death-friend.html


2 posted on 08/12/2022 1:08:22 PM PDT by RummyChick
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Abigal is a nutjob, take anything she says with suspicion.


3 posted on 08/12/2022 1:10:21 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: RummyChick

Disney is a complete embarrassment to rational citizens of the United States.


4 posted on 08/12/2022 1:11:17 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: RummyChick

I am inclined to give the cold shoulder to women who file suit twenty years after the fact, years after the sordid mess became public knowledge, and even after Harvey’s trial and conviction.

Cold shoulder, perhaps, but I would not deny her day in court.


5 posted on 08/12/2022 1:15:52 PM PDT by jimtorr
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There is a sliding scale on this...there are plenty of women who would have tolerated such behavior to make it in the business. Willing participant....unwilling participant but doesn’t want career ruined...unwilling participant who got the hell away from him..etc.


6 posted on 08/12/2022 1:20:03 PM PDT by RummyChick
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Hollywood is a nothing but a trash heap


7 posted on 08/12/2022 1:22:53 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: RummyChick

Add to the scale: participant (willing or unwilling) looking for a last paycheck after her career is over.

She should have said something earlier.


8 posted on 08/12/2022 1:29:57 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: RummyChick

Weinstein ran Miramar studios, then a Disney subsidiary.


9 posted on 08/12/2022 1:36:39 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: packrat35

I was going to say, take anything reported in Rolling Stone with suspicion, isn’t that where that article claiming that folks were dying from horse invermectin or whatever started by a doctor that claimed to work for a health care system that he didn’t work for and called the whole thing fake not all that long ago? Going so far as to post on their main web site page a notice that the person did not work for them and they had no reports of people being treated for using horse medicine on themselves.


10 posted on 08/12/2022 1:40:52 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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If everyone doesn’t know this deep dark secret about Hollywood, I’ll give you a two word clue. CASTING COUCH. Yep, all those actresses in H’wood had to do an enterview on the casting couch (yeah I know, but it’s misspelled for a reason). All those little girls AND boys had to do an enterview on the casting couch (Corey Feldman). This has been known since the 50’s, and probably even earlier. Hollywood is just a branch of the pedophelia business that flourishes in America. The main supporter is, wait for it, the ABC agencies. Remember J. Edgar Hoover? These people make tons of $$$$$$ from their peverted lives. The government supports them, and even encourages them. The only shining light on a hill in America is a red light!


11 posted on 08/12/2022 1:56:44 PM PDT by RobertoinAL
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Rolling Stone sucks also, but Abigail is a complete liberal snowflake nutjob. If she said we lived on earth, I would have my doubts.


12 posted on 08/12/2022 1:59:44 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: RummyChick

I have always been amazed at how fast that company decayed once Walt died.


13 posted on 08/12/2022 2:00:37 PM PDT by GingisK
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By the way, Abigail should should a lot of blame IF what she says is true. She KNEW and she didn’t say a damn thing herself. SHAME SHAME Abigail.


14 posted on 08/12/2022 2:00:58 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: RobertoinAL

there are just as many male victims as female if the truth were known...and this includes the music industry as well

I have no doubt the Menudo story is true

As is the constant rumor about the Nickelodeon guy


15 posted on 08/12/2022 2:02:47 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RobertoinAL

Casting couches existed since the business began in the silent film era.


16 posted on 08/12/2022 2:03:15 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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The Nickelodeon guy who had the foot fetish. I have no doubt anymore its true. See iCarly many times because of kids and after it came out noticed many many shows where the expose their feet.


17 posted on 08/12/2022 2:05:13 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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Abigail Disney: The Wealthy Don't Need Another Tax Break - NowThis

Such a disgusting looking person. All her money could never attract me to her for even a single second. Inside, she is even worse than her exterior.

18 posted on 08/12/2022 2:13:56 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: packrat35

Ariana Grande is from that time frame. Her family is as thirsty as it gets...her brother is something else.

She was just really starting to hit it big when Frankie “The Social Media Mogul” revealed who he was on Big Brother. He did not win. The police dude in the white shirt won.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dl4agrz1Ws

No denying she has talent.

Interestingly, her grandfather has patents on some things that were used in various countries naval forces. Can’t remember what it is.


19 posted on 08/12/2022 2:28:01 PM PDT by RummyChick
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The new woke remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:

Person of Color and the Seven Other Persons.

20 posted on 08/12/2022 3:26:55 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President.)
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